Empowerment

LFN Opens a Can of Worms: Is the DA Pricing Cape Town Homeowners Out of Their Own Properties?

LFN has opened a can of worms in the DA-led City of Cape Town over skyrocketing municipal property valuations that threaten to price ordinary homeowners out of their own properties. What began as a simple demand for transparency has already prompted responses from the Executive Mayor’s office, the City’s legal department and the national Minister of Cooperative Governance. With concerns mounting over wealthy foreign investors, questionable valuations and escalating property rates, LFN is demanding answers to a fundamental question: How can government demand more money from property owners without properly explaining how their properties were valued? If the authorities fail to address these constitutional concerns, LFN is prepared to take the fight to court.

LFN Says Enough: Why We Back CAPEXIT and OHM — and Why the DA Has Lost Our Trust

LFN has made its choice for the coming local government elections. In the Western Cape, we support CAPEXIT, while across the rest of South Africa, we support the Organic Humanity Movement (OHM). This is not about blind political allegiance — it is about supporting alternatives that seek to return power to communities, strengthen public participation and make government accountable to the people it is supposed to serve. We also explain why LFN has lost trust in both the ANC and DA, and why South Africans should stop believing they are limited to the same political choices election after election.

He Murdered His Family — But the Court Says He’s Sane: LFN Asks How That Makes Sense

A person brutally murders his entire family. Psychiatrists evaluate him. The court finds that he understood exactly what he was doing — and sends him to prison rather than a psychiatric institution. But if deliberately committing an unimaginable atrocity does not necessarily make someone legally insane, what exactly does it mean to be “sane”? LFN explores the fascinating divide between legal sanity, mental illness, criminal responsibility and what ordinary people regard as “normal” — and asks whether our criminal justice system needs another way of dealing with the most dangerous offenders. What is your opinion? [Comments Invited]

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